We Are Arcadium Lithium

Paul Graves is our Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. As CEO of Livent, Paul was an integral part of the merger that created Arcadium Lithium. Previously, Paul was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FMC Corporation. Before joining FMC, he was a partner at Goldman Sachs, serving in a variety of roles, including as Head of Natural Resources for Asia, Global Head of Agricultural Investment Banking, and Global Head of Chemical Investment Banking.

Gilberto Antoniazzi is our Chief Financial Officer, a role he also served in at Livent. Before joining Livent, Gilberto held leadership positions at FMC Corporation, including assignments in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil and Turkey. He was the Chief Financial Officer for FMC’s Agricultural Solutions business segment, as well as the Chief Financial Officer for the Latin America Region and Finance Director for the Europe, Middle East & Africa Region.

Sara Ponessa is our General Counsel and Secretary, a position she also held at Livent. As General Counsel and Secretary of Livent, she oversaw all legal matters worldwide for the company, including the successful merger of equals transaction between Livent and Allkem that created Arcadium Lithium. She brings over 25 years of experience across a breadth of legal and compliance functions. In addition to her roles at Arcadium Lithium and Livent, she has held senior counsel positions for the Lithium, Alkali and Peroxygens divisions of FMC Corporation and for AstraZeneca, one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies. Before joining AstraZeneca, she was Vice President and Risk Management and Compliance Section Manager for Wilmington Trust Company. Before Wilmington Trust Company, she practiced corporate law at Saul Ewing in Philadelphia and was a judicial clerk for the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Alicia Markmann is our Chief Human Resources Officer, a position she also held at Livent. Before joining Livent, Alicia held senior positions in HR and Talent Management at FMC Corporation. With more than 20 years of global experience in People Strategy and HR operations, including building and leading multi-disciplinary HR teams, Alicia works closely with management teams to deliver business results.

Barbara Fochtman is our Chief Operations Officer. Previously, Barbara was Chief Operations and Engineering Officer at Livent. She has 30 years of experience across operations, supply chain and procurement. At FMC Corporation, Barbara served as Plant Manager, Sales and Operations Planning Director and Procurement Director.

Christian Cortes is our Chief Integration and Transformation Officer. Christian was Allkem Limited’s Chief of Sales and Marketing prior to serving as Acting Chief Financial Officer since February 2023. Christian brings nearly 20 years of international business experience in the professional services, resources and chemical products industries. Christian began his career as a chartered accountant with PwC, working with public companies in audit, business performance and transaction support.

Denis Couture is the Managing Director at our Galaxy Lithium Mine project / operation in Canada. Previously, he was the Head of Canadian Operations at Allkem Limited. Denis is a qualified engineer with over 30 years of mining experience, specializing in operations in Northern Quebec. His previous roles include Vice President and General Manager at Ausenco, Project Manager of SNC-Lavalin in Montreal and has held leadership roles at Agnico-Eagle Mines and BHP.

Hersen Porta is our Chief Upstream Operations Officer and General Manager of Argentina. Hersen has over 35 years’ experience in the resources industry. He was previously the Head of Argentina Operations at Allkem Limited; before that was COO at Orocobre Limited and General Manager and President of Cabot Corporation in Argentina. He also served, in different geographies and technologies, a variety of management and operations roles over a 28-year tenure at The Dow Chemical Co.

Karen Vizental is our Chief Sustainability and Global Communications Officer. Previously, Karen was the Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Officer at Allkem Limited. She has also held senior leadership positions at Unilever and GlaxoSmithkline in Latin America. Karen also launched a successful company, Grupa PR, which provided institutional affairs and communications services to several international companies.

Liam Franklyn is our Head of Australian Operations. Previously, Liam held the same role for Allkem Limited. A qualified engineer with over 20 years’ operational experience, he has held senior roles spanning engineering, production and maintenance with BHP and Newcrest across Nickel, Iron Ore, Gold and Copper, with exposure throughout the value chain from mining to refining.

Neil is an accomplished business executive with significant engineering, construction and consulting experience leading large-scale, complex capital projects for Fortune 500 companies. Over the past four years, he ran his own consulting business and prior to that, Neil worked at Worley for 15 years in various positions of leadership, most recently as President of its Services Energy & Chemicals business line for the US Gulf Coast, US East & Power, Latin America and Saudi Arabia. Before joining Worley in 2005, Neil spent 19 years in the United Kingdom working for Consafe Engineering, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility, including Group Managing Director.

Sarah Maryssael is our Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of Canada. Previously she was Chief Strategy Officer at Livent, responsible for leading enterprise efforts to grow and scale the business globally. Before joining Livent, Sarah led strategic sourcing of lithium and other battery metals for Tesla’s global battery supply chain across its Nevada, Shanghai, Berlin and Texas gigafactories. Prior to Tesla, Sarah occupied various roles at Boston Consulting Group, Vale and ExxonMobil.

Walter Czarnecki is our Chief Commercial Officer. He was previously Livent’s Chief Commercial Officer. Before joining Livent, Walter served as President and CEO of OmniMetrix, a publicly-listed leader in IoT industrial monitoring solutions. He has over 20 years of business development and strategy experience, including at Acorn Energy, Ener1, Inc., China Renaissance Partners in Beijing. He began his career at Lehman Brothers Investment Banking.